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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE

HIDDEN TREASURES

OF ISLAM

BEQUEATHED TO THE WORLDBY

HHHHADDDDRAT MIRZAAAAGHULAAAAM AHHHHMAD OF QADIAN

Comprising introductions and brief summaries of each of the 91books written by the Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jamaat,

Hadrat MirzaGhulam Ahmad,the Promised Messiah and Imam Mahdi

[May peace be upon him]

COMPILED BYSYED HASANAT AHMAD


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An Introduction to the hidden Treasures of Islam

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An Introduction to the Hidden Treasures of Islam

(An introduction and brief summary of each of the 91 books

written by the Founder of the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Jamaat,Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiah and ImamMahdi)

Compiled & Edited by: Syed Hasanat Ahmad

First Edition: 2010

Islam International Publications Ltd.

Published by:

Islam International Publications Ltd.

Islamabad Sheephatch Lane,

Tilford, Surrey GU10 2AQ

United Kingdom

Printed and bound in Great Britain by:

ISBN: 978-1-84880-050-2


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Volume V .................................................................... xlVolume VI ................................................................... xlVolume VII ................................................................ xli

Volume VIII ............................................................... xliVolume IX .................................................................. xliVolume X ................................................................... xliTadhkirah ................................................................... xli

A thumb-nail sketch of each of the ninety-one books of the

Promised Messiahas ___________________________________ 1BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part I) .................. 3

Background .................................................................. 4The Book ...................................................................... 6Specimen of writing ..................................................... 7Review .......................................................................... 7

BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part II) ............... 11The Book .................................................................... 12Specimen of Writing .................................................. 12

BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part III) ............. 15The Book .................................................................... 16Specimen of Writing .................................................. 17

BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part IV) ............. 19The Book .................................................................... 20Impact ......................................................................... 21Review ........................................................................ 23

PURANITAHRIREIN.......................................... 27

Background ................................................................ 28The Book .................................................................... 28Specimen of Writing .................................................. 29Important Note ........................................................... 30

SURMAH CHASHM-E-ARYAH .......................... 31Background ................................................................ 32The Book .................................................................... 32Specimen of Writing .................................................. 32Review ........................................................................ 33

SHAHNA-E-HAQQ ............................................. 35


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Background ................................................................ 36The Book .................................................................... 36Specimen of Writing .................................................. 37

Impact/Review ........................................................... 37

SABZ ISHTIHAR .................................................. 39Background ................................................................ 40The Book .................................................................... 41

FATHE ISLAM ...................................................... 43Background ................................................................ 44The Book .................................................................... 44Specimen of Writing .................................................. 45Review ........................................................................ 45

TAUDIH-E-MARAM ............................................ 47Background ................................................................ 48The Book .................................................................... 48Specimen of Writing .................................................. 49Impact ......................................................................... 49

IZALA-E-AUHAM ................................................ 51Background ................................................................ 52The Book .................................................................... 52Specimen of Writing .................................................. 54Impact ......................................................................... 55

AL-HAQ MUBAHATHAH LUDHIANA ............ 57Background ................................................................ 58The Book .................................................................... 58

Specimen of Writing .................................................. 60Impact ......................................................................... 60

AL-HAQ MUBAHATHAH DEHLI ..................... 63Background ................................................................ 64Specimen of Writing .................................................. 67Important Note ........................................................... 67

ASMANIFAISALAH ............................................ 69Background ................................................................ 70The Book .................................................................... 70Specimen of Writing .................................................. 71


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NISHAN-E-ASMANI............................................. 73Background ................................................................ 74The Book .................................................................... 74Specimen of Writing .................................................. 75

EIK ISAIKEI TIN SAWAL AUR UNKEIJAWABAT ............................................................. 77

Background ................................................................ 78The Book .................................................................... 78Specimen of writing ................................................... 79

AINA-E-KAMALAT-E-ISLAM ........................... 81Background ................................................................ 82The Book .................................................................... 82Specimen of Writing .................................................. 83

BARAKATUD-DUA........................................... 87Background ................................................................ 88The Book .................................................................... 88Specimen of Writing .................................................. 90

HUJJATUL-ISLAM ............................................... 91Background ................................................................ 92Specimen of Writing .................................................. 95

SACHCHAIKAIZHAR ....................................... 97Background ................................................................ 98The Book .................................................................... 98

JANG-E-MUQADDAS .......................................... 99Background .............................................................. 100The Book .................................................................. 100Specimen of Writing ................................................ 104

SHAHADATUL-QURAN .................................. 107Background .............................................................. 108The Book .................................................................. 108Specimen of Writing ................................................ 109

TUHFA-E-BAGHDAD ....................................... 111Background .............................................................. 112The Book .................................................................. 114Specimen of Writing ................................................ 115


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KARAMATUS-SADIQIN .................................... 117Background .............................................................. 118The Book .................................................................. 118Specimen of Writing ................................................ 119Impact ....................................................................... 119

HAMAMATUL-BUSHRA.................................. 121Background .............................................................. 122The Book .................................................................. 122Specimen of Writing ................................................ 123Impact ....................................................................... 123

NURUL-HAQQ (Part I) ...................................... 125Background .............................................................. 126The Book .................................................................. 127Specimen of Writing ................................................ 127Impact ....................................................................... 128

NURUL-HAQQ (Part II) ..................................... 129Background .............................................................. 130The Book .................................................................. 130Specimen of Writing ................................................ 132

ITMAMUL-HUJJAH ........................................... 133Background .............................................................. 134The Book .................................................................. 134Specimen of Writing ................................................ 135Impact ....................................................................... 136

SIRRUL-KHILAFAH .......................................... 137Background .............................................................. 138The Book & Specimen ............................................. 138

ANWARUL-ISLAM ............................................ 141Background .............................................................. 142The Book .................................................................. 143Specimen of Writing ................................................ 144Impact ....................................................................... 144

MINANUR-RAHMAN ........................................ 145Background .............................................................. 146The Book .................................................................. 146


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Specimen of Writing ................................................ 148DIYAUL-HAQQ ................................................ 149

Background .............................................................. 150The Book .................................................................. 150Specimen of Writing ................................................ 151

NURUL-QURAN (Number I) ............................ 153Background .............................................................. 154The Magazine ........................................................... 154

NURUL-QURAN (Number II) ........................... 155Background .............................................................. 156Magazine Number II ................................................ 156Specimen of Writing ................................................ 158

MIYARUL-MADHAHIB ................................... 159Background .............................................................. 160The Book .................................................................. 160Specimen of Writing ................................................ 160

ARYAH DHARAM ............................................. 163Background .............................................................. 164The Book .................................................................. 164Specimen of Writing ................................................ 166

SATT BACHAN .................................................. 167Background .............................................................. 168The Book .................................................................. 168Specimen of Writing ................................................ 170

ISLAMIUSUL KIPHILOSOPHY ...................... 173Background .............................................................. 174The Book .................................................................. 174Specimen of Writing ................................................ 178

ANJAM-E-ATHAM ............................................. 179Background .............................................................. 180The Book .................................................................. 181Impact ....................................................................... 184

SIRAJ-E-MUNIR ................................................. 185

Background .............................................................. 186The Book .................................................................. 186


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Specimen of Writing ................................................ 187ISTIFTA .............................................................. 189

Background .............................................................. 190The Book .................................................................. 190

HUJJATULLAH .................................................. 193Background .............................................................. 194The Book .................................................................. 194

TUHFA-E-QAISARIYYAH ................................ 197Background .............................................................. 198The Book .................................................................. 198Specimen of Writing ................................................ 199

JALSA-E-AHBAB ............................................... 201Background .............................................................. 202The Book .................................................................. 202

MAHMUD KIAMIN .......................................... 203Background .............................................................. 204The Book .................................................................. 204

SIRAJ-UD-DIN ISAIKEI CHAR SAWALONKAJAWAB ................................................................. 205

Background .............................................................. 206The Book .................................................................. 206Specimen of Writing ................................................ 208Impact ....................................................................... 209

KITABUL-BARIYYAH ...................................... 213Background .............................................................. 214The Book .................................................................. 214Specimen of Writing ................................................ 217

AL-BALAGH YAFARYAD-E-DARD .............. 219Background .............................................................. 220The Book .................................................................. 220

DARURATUL-IMAM ......................................... 223Background .............................................................. 224The Book .................................................................. 224Specimen of Writing ................................................ 226


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Background .............................................................. 270The Book .................................................................. 271Specimen of the Sermon .......................................... 272

LUJJATUN-NUR ................................................. 275

Background .............................................................. 276Specimen of Writing ................................................ 278

GOVERNMENT ANGREZIAUR JIHAD ......... 279Background .............................................................. 280Specimen of Writing ................................................ 283

TUHFA-E-GOLARHVIYYAH .......................... 285


ARBAIN (LI ITMAMIL-HUJJATIALAL-MUKHALIFIN) ...................................... 291

Background/Specimen of Writing ............................ 292IJAZUL-MASIH................................................. 295

Background .............................................................. 296The Book .................................................................. 297Review ...................................................................... 298Specimen of Writing ................................................ 298

EIK GHALATIKAIZALAH .............................. 299Background .............................................................. 300The Book .................................................................. 300Specimen of Writing ................................................ 302

DAFIUL- BALA WA MIYARO AHLIL-ISTIFA.............................................................................. 305


AL-HUDAWA-TABSIRATO LIMANYARA.. 309Background .............................................................. 310The Book .................................................................. 310Impact ....................................................................... 311


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NUZULUL-MASIH............................................ 313Background .............................................................. 314Specimen of Writing ................................................ 315

GUNAH KIGHULAMISEI RIHAIPANEI KITADABIR KAYAHAIN? ................................... 317

The Book .................................................................. 318Specimen of writing ................................................. 318

ISMAT-E-ANBIYA........................................... 321The Book .................................................................. 322Specimen of writing ................................................. 322

KASHTI-E-NUH.................................................. 325The Background ....................................................... 326The Book .................................................................. 326Impact ....................................................................... 327Specimen of Writing ................................................ 328

TUHFATUN-NADWAH ..................................... 329Background .............................................................. 330The Book .................................................................. 330Specimen of Writing ................................................ 331

IJAZ-E-AHMADI............................................... 333Background .............................................................. 334The Book .................................................................. 335

REVIEW BAR MUBAHATHAH BATALVI WA

CHAKRHALVI.................................................... 339Background .............................................................. 340The Book .................................................................. 340Specimen of Writing ................................................ 341

MAWAHIBUR-RAHMAN ................................. 343Background .............................................................. 344The Book .................................................................. 344Impact ....................................................................... 345Specimen of Writing ................................................ 346

NASIM-E-DAWAT ............................................ 347Background .............................................................. 348


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The Book .................................................................. 349Specimen of Writing ................................................ 350

SANATAN DHARAM ........................................ 351Background .............................................................. 352The Book .................................................................. 352Impact ....................................................................... 353

TADHKIRATUSH-SHAHADATAIN ................ 355Background .............................................................. 356The Book .................................................................. 357Specimen of Writing ................................................ 358

SIRATUL-ABDAL .............................................. 361Background .............................................................. 362The Book .................................................................. 362

LECTURE LAHORE ........................................... 363Background .............................................................. 364The Book .................................................................. 364Specimen of Writing ................................................ 365

LECTURE SIALKOT .......................................... 367Background .............................................................. 368The Book .................................................................. 368Specimen of Writing ................................................ 370

LECTURE LUDHIANA ...................................... 373Background .............................................................. 374The Book .................................................................. 374

AL-WASIYYAT .................................................. 377Background .............................................................. 378The Book .................................................................. 378Specimen of Writing ................................................ 380

CHASHMA-E-MASIHI..................................... 383Background .............................................................. 384The Book .................................................................. 384Specimen of Writing ................................................ 385

TAJALLIYYAT-E-ILAHIYYAH ........................ 387Background .............................................................. 388The Book .................................................................. 388


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Specimen of Writing ................................................ 389QADIAN KEI ARYAHAUR HAMM ................ 391


BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part V) ............ 395The Book .................................................................. 396Specimen of Writing ................................................ 400

HAQIQATUL-WAHI......................................... 403Background .............................................................. 404The Book .................................................................. 404

CHASHMA-E-MARIFAT ................................ 409Background .............................................................. 410The Book .................................................................. 410Specimen of Writing ................................................ 412

PAIGHAM-E-SULAH......................................... 415Background .............................................................. 416The Book .................................................................. 417Specimen of Writing ................................................ 418

BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................ 421ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF BOOKS .............. 423


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FOREWORD

The Holy Quran makes many magnificent prophecies about the latter

days, including:

And when the books are spread abroad (al-Takwir:11)

A hadith of the Holy Prophetsa is helpful in interpreting this verse. He

is reported to have said that when Isa, the son of Mary, will come,

there will be an abundance of wealth, and this wealth will flow soabundantly that nobody will accept it. (See Bukhari,Kitabul Anbiya

babu nuzule isabne Maryam).

This Prophecy was magnificently fulfilled in the person of HadratMirzaGhulam Ahmadasof Qadian, the Promised Messiah and Mahdiin whom various prophecies about the second coming of Jesus

(Hadrat Isaas) have been fulfilled. He himself declared that: Thetreasures that laid buried for more than a thousand years;

are now being distributed by me to the one who is ready to accept

them. ([Translation of an Urdu couplet]Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah,vol.

5, p. 117,RuhaniKhazain,vol. 21, p. 147)

The Promised Messiahaswrote more than 91 books, and issued many

announcements elucidating the deeper meanings of the Holy Quran

and beauties of Islam. He challenged all other faiths to come up withanything which comes even fractionally close, but with no response.

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[Urdu] No one came forward to test me even though;I issued challenges and invitation all around.1

Moreover, his spoken words and letters have also been printed.

Alhamdolillah that the members of the Ahmadiyyah MuslimJamaathave been blessed with serving and spreading the works of thePromised Messiahas. Publication of his books into a twenty-three

volume set known as RuhaniKhazain(Spiritual Treasures) was done

in 1960s under the auspices of Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyah Limited,

Rabwah, Pakistan and included Introduction of the books by HadratMaulanaJalal-ud-Din Shamsra, who also prepared most indexes for thebooks. It was reprinted in England in 1984. His Ishtiharat

[announcements], Maktubat [letters] and Malfuzat [spoken words]

have also been published from Pakistan and then from England andIndia.

The Holy Quran is the foundation upon which all works of the

Promised Messiahas are based. In this sense, everything the Promised

Messiahashas written is a commentary on the Holy Quran. A selection

containing the commentary of various verses of the Holy Quran has

been compiled into a book as Tafsir bayan farmudah HadratMirza

Ghulam Ahmad Qadianias

, [Commentary by HadratMirza GhulamAhmad of Qadianas]. His dreams, visions, and verbal revelations have

been collected into a book as Tadhkirah,an essential read for all those

who wish to study the spiritual status of the Promised Messiahas and

Imam of the age.

One of the visions of the Promised Messiahaswas:

1An Urdu couplet from Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam, page 224, Ruhani Khazain,

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I saw in a vision that I was standing on a pulpit in the city of London

and was setting forth the truth of Islam in the English language, in a

very well reasoned address. Thereafter, I caught several birds whowere sitting upon small trees and were of white colour and their

bodies resembled the bodies of partridges. (Izala-e-Auham, pp.

515-516,RuhaniKhazain, vol. 3, p. 377)

The Promised Messiahasadded about this vision:

I interpreted this vision as meaning that though I would not be able

to travel to that country, my writings will be published there andmany righteous English people will be attracted to the truth.(ibid.)

English translations of his works started during his lifetime. Some of

his books include excerpts translated into English. The Review of

Religions and the Sunrise magazine, published in Lahore, started

publishing English translations of excerpts of the books of the

Promised Messiahas

. An important landmark was the publication ofexcerpts from the writings of the Promised Messiahas on the occasion

of the first centenary of the establishment of Jamaat-e-Ahmadiyyah in1989, which was prepared and translated into English under the direct

supervision of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih IVrta and translated into 100languages.

Now, under the supervision of Hadrat Khalifatul Masih Vaba,

Vakalat-e-Tasnif and Additional Vakalat-e-Tasnif, are busy in thetranslation work, to this day not just in English but in many different

languages of the world. So far, Jamaat has published the Englishtranslation of the following Books of the Promised Messiahas:

Paigham-e-Sulah(A Message of Peace) Eik GhalatiKaIzalah (A Misconception Removed)

Barakatud-Du

a (The Blessings of Prayer) Government Angrezi Aur Jihad (British Government and

Jihad)

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Taudih-e-Maram (Elucidation of Objectives) Chashma-e-Masihi(The Fountain of Christianity)

MasihHindustan Mein(Jesus in India) Lecture Ludhiana

Lecture Lahore

Lecture Sialkot

HamariTalim (Our Teaching) [Part of the Kashti-e-Nuh] Islami Usul KiPhilosophy (The Philosophy of the Teachings

of Islam)

Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain (The Two Martyrs) Miyarul-Madhahib (The Criterion for Religions) AsmaniFaisalah (The Heavenly Decree) Nishan-e-Asmani(The Heavenly Sign) Daruratul- Imam (The Need for the Imam) Al-Wasiyyat (The Will) Eik IsaiKei Tin Sawal aur Unkei Jawab (Three Questions by a

Christian and their Answers) Fathe Islam (Victory of Islam) Siraj-ud-Din IsaiKei Char SawalonKaJawab (Answers to the

Four Questions by Siraj-ud-Din, a Christian) Minanur-Rahman (The Blessings of the Gracious God) Gunah ki Ghulami Sei Rihai Panei Ki Tadabir kaya Hain?

(How to Get Rid of the Bondage of Sin?)

Sabz Ishtihar (The Green Announcement) SachchaiKaIzhar (The Truth Revealed) Tuhfatun-Nadwah (A Gift for Nadwah) Dafiul-Bala Wa Miyaro Ahlil-Istifa (Defence Against the

Plague and a Criterion for the Elect of God)

Vakalat-e-Tasnif has also published excerpts from the writings of the

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PUBLISHERS NOTE

According to our system of counting Quranic verses, the verse

Bismillah-irrahman-irrahim (In the name of Allah, the Most

Gracious, Ever Merciful) is counted as the first verse of the chapter,

which it precedes. Some publishers of the Holy Quran however, begin

counting following Bismillah-irrahman-irrahim. Should the reader

not find the relevant verse under the number mentioned in this book,

he or she is advised to deduct 1 from the number. For example, if thisbook quotes Ch. 35:Fatir: 25, then some copies of the Holy Quran

will list the same verse under Ch. 35:Fatir: 24.

Where necessary, translation of the Arabic text has been elaborated

by additional words to explain the meaning. Such words are not in

italics. The word andat the commencement of a translated verse has

been omitted.

The form ibn (son of) has been used in both initial and medialposition in the names of persons, in order to conform to current usage,

although binalso occurs medially in some original texts (abbreviated

usually as b.).

Quotations from the Holy Bible are from the New World

Translation.

The name of Muhammad, the Holy Prophet of Islam, has been

followed by the symbol sa, which is an abbreviation for the prayer ( )Sallallahu Alaihi wa Sallam (may peace and blessings of Allah be

upon him). The names of other Prophets and messengers are followed


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by the symbol as, an abbreviation for ( / ) Alaihis-salam/

Alaihimus-salam (on whom be peace). The actual prayers have not

generally been set out in full, but they should nevertheless, beunderstood as being repeated in full in each case. The symbol rais used

with the name of the Companions of the Holy Prophetsaand those of

the Promised Messiahas. It stands for ( / / ) Radi Allahu

anhu/anha/anhum (may Allah be pleased with him/with her/with

them). rtastands for ( ) Rahmatullah alaih(may Allah have mercyon him). at stands for ( ) Ayyadahullahu Taala (may Allah, the

Almighty help him).In transliterating Arabic words we have followed the following

system adopted by the Royal Asiatic Society:

at the beginning of a word, pronounced asa, i, upreceded by a

very slight aspiration, like hin the English word honour.th, pronounced like thin the English word thing.

h, a guttural aspirate, stronger than h. kh, pronounced like the Scotch chin loch. dh, pronounced like the English thin that.

s, strongly articulateds. d, similar to the English thin this. t, strongly articulated palatal t. z, strongly articulatedz. , a strong guttural, the pronunciation of which must be learnt

by the ear.

gh, a sound approached very nearly in the rgrasseyein French,and in the German r. It requires the muscles of the throat to

be in the gargling position whilst pronouncing it.

q, a deep gutturalksound. , a sort of catch in the voice.

Short vowels are represented by:

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LIFE AND MISSION

Hadrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiahas, hailed fromQadian. He was born on Friday, February 13, 1835 (corresponding to

14 Shawwal, 1250 A.H.). Qadian, at that time, was a small village, 11miles to the east of Batala, a township 18 miles from Amritsar and

about 70 miles from Lahore. His father, MirzaGhulam Murtada, wasa well-to-do landlord of Qadian and was generally known as Rais of

Qadian (the chief of Qadian). HadratAhmads birth was a twin birth,his twin sister died shortly afterwards.

The family was one of the most respectable Persian families settled

in the land, and his ancestor, Mirza HadiBeg, traced his ancestry toBarlas, an uncle of Emperor Taimur.

Hadrat Ahmadas was born in an age of darkness when generallylittle thought was given to learning, so much so that if a person

received a letter, it remained unread for weeks and months together. It

was no wonder that many aristocratic families remained illiterate.

But with Hadrat Ahmadas, it was a different story. He was underthe Divine protection since his birth. His father developed a strong

desire that his son should be properly educated and, therefore, whenhe was of a tender age, a teacher, Fadl Ilahi, was appointed to teachhim the Holy Quran. Thus began his life-long association with the

Holy Quran. Fadl Ahmad was the second teacher that HadratAhmadas got at the age of 10. He taught him Persian and othersubjects. When Hadrat Ahmadas was 17 or 18, Gul Ali Shah wasappointed to teach him grammar and Mantiq (logic). Hadrat

Ahmadas

s father, himself an experienced physician, instructed him inthe rudiments of medicine.

When Hadrat Ahmadas was about 29, he, in deference to thewishes of his father, proceeded to Sialkot in 1864 to take up an


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appointment in the court of the Deputy Commissioner. There, his

piety came to be universally recognized and although he was still a

young man, he was held in high esteem by Muslims and Hindus alike.He was of a retiring nature and spent most of his time in study.

Rev. Butler was a Christian missionary stationed at Sialkot and had

frequent religious discussions with him. When leaving Sialkot, Rev.

Butler paid a farewell visit to Hadrat Ahmadas. On enquiry, themissionary told the Deputy Commissioner that he had come to the

court only to see Hadrat Ahmadas. This was the regard that was

entertained for him at an early age by the people of other faiths.Hadrat Ahmadas remained for four years in Sialkot with utmost

reluctance. One day, he received the command of his father to return

and he forthwith tendered his resignation and returned home. He

began to look after the legal cases connected with his fathers estate.

But his mind was engaged elsewhere. His sense of filial obedience,

however, persuaded him to carry out his father's command, but he felt

no interest in these errands. People, who saw him in those days, wouldrecount how, at times, it happened that when he returned home after

having lost a legal case, there would be a flush of happiness on his face

and people would think that the law-suit had been decided in his

favour, till an enquiry would reveal facts to the contrary. Giving a

description in his own words, HadratAhmadassays:

I was 34 or 35 years of age when my father died. In a dream, I hadbeen warned that his death was approaching. I was then in Lahore

and hastened to Qadian. He was suffering from dysentery but I had

no apprehension whatsoever that he would die the day after my

arrival. In fact, there had been some change for the better in his

condition and he could even sit for long hours. The following day, we

were all with him at noon when he kindly suggested that I should go

and have some rest, for it was the month of June and the heat wasintense. I retired into an upper room and a servant began to knead

my feet. Presently I fell into a light slumber and then came to me the

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and We call to witness that misfortune which will fall today after

sunset.

I was given to understand that this revelation was by way ofcommiseration on behalf of God Almighty, as my father would

unfortunately die that very day after sunset. Holy is Allah! How

glorious is the Great God that He commiserates on the death of a

person who died sorrowing over his wasted life! Most people would

be surprised at this interpretation of mine that God Almighty

commiserated with me. It should, however, be remembered that

when God, glorified be His name, treats someone mercifully, Hedeals with him like a friend. We read in the traditions that on certain

occasions God Almighty laughed. This also is a similar kind of

expression.

To sum up, when I received this revelation, which presaged the

death of my father, the thought passed through my mind, because I

was only a human, that some of the means of income which were

linked to my father would now be closed and we might be confronted

with all sorts of difficulties. Thereupon I received another revelation:

Is not Allah sufficient for His servant?

This revelation conveyed great comfort and satisfaction to me

and it firmly fixed itself in my heart like an iron nail. I swear by God

Almighty in Whose hand is my life that He has fulfilled this

comforting revelation in a manner that was beyond my imagination.

He has provided for me as no father could have provided for anyone.

I have been the recipient of His continuous bounties, which I find

impossible to deny.

My father died the same day after sunset. This was the first day

on which I experienced a sign of Divine mercy through revelation

concerning which I cannot imagine that it would ever cease to have

effect during my lifetime. I had the words of the revelation carved on

a semiprecious stone and set it in a ring, which I have with me

securely. Nearly 40 years of my life passed under the care of my

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revelations continuously and abundantly. (Kitabul-Bariyyah, pp.

174-177 footnote,RuhaniKhazain, vol. 13, p.192-195 footnote)

About the mission that was entrusted to him by the Almighty, HadratAhmadasused these prophetic words:

Hearken, all ye people. This is a prophecy of Him Who created

heaven and earth. He will spread this Community of His in all

countries and will make it supreme over all, through reason and

arguments. The days are coming, indeed they are near, when this will

be the only religion which will be held in honour. God will bestowextraordinary blessings on this religion and Community. He will

frustrate everyone who seeks to destroy it. This supremacy will last

till the Judgment Day....

Remember, no one will descend from heaven. All our opponents

who are alive today will die and no one will see Jesus, son of Mary,

descending from heaven. Then their next generation will pass away

and no one of them will see this spectacle. Then the generation next

after that will pass away without seeing the son of Mary descending

from heaven. Then God will make them anxious that though the

time of the supremacy of the Cross had passed away and the world

had undergone great changes, yet the son of Mary had not descended

from heaven. Then the wise people will suddenly discard this belief.

The third century after today will not yet have come to a close when

those who hold this belief, whether Muslims or Christians, will lose

all hope and will give up this belief in disgust. There will then be only

one religion that will prevail in the world and only one leader. I have

come only to sow the seed which has been sown by my hand. Now it

will sprout and grow and flourish and no one can arrest its growth.

(Tadhkiratush-Shahadatain, pp 64-66,RuhaniKhazain,vol. 20, pp.

66-67)

Had my claim been put forward on my own, you would have been

free to reject me, but if Gods Holy Prophet bears witness for me in

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not wrong yourselves by rejecting me. Say not that you are Muslims

and have no need of accepting any Messiah.

I tell you truly that he who accepts me accepts Him who hadprophesied about me thirteen hundred years in advance, and had

indicated the time of my appearance, and had specified my function;

and he who rejects me rejects Him who had commanded that I

should be accepted. (Ayyamus-Sulah, pp. 91-92, Ruhani Khazain,

vol. 14, pp. 328-329)

He who accepts me accepts afresh all the Prophetsas and their

miracles, and he who does not accept me will lose his earlier faith

also, for he possesses only tales and no personal experience. I reflect

the image of God. He who comes to me and accepts me will see

afresh the God concerning Whom other people have only tales to

tell. I believe in the God Whom those who deny me do not

recognize. I state truly that what they believe in are the idols of their

imagination and not God. That is why those idols cannot help them,cannot give them any strength, cannot bring about a pure

transformation in them, and cannot show them any supporting signs.

(Nuzulul Masih, pp. 84-85,RuhaniKhazain, vol. 18, pp. 462-463)

When the Imam of the age appears in the world, a thousand lights

accompany him, and there is joy in heaven and the good qualities of

people are stimulated through the spread of spirituality and

illumination. He who possesses the capacity of receiving revelationbegins to receive revelation, and he who has the capacity to reflect

upon matters of the faith experiences an increase in power of

reflection and understanding, and he whose heart is drawn towards

worship begins to find pleasure in worship and religious exercises,

and he who carries on discussions with the followers of other faiths is

bestowed the power of reasoning and carrying conviction through

relevant proofs. All this results from the spread of spirituality which

descends from heaven with the Imam of the age and activates every

eager heart. This is a Divine Law which is expounded in the Holy


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Quran and the true Ahadithand the working of which is observable

through personal experience. The age of the Promised Messiah has

this special characteristic that in the ancient scriptures andAhadithitis recorded that at the time of his advent, this spread of spirituality

will reach a degree in which women will also receive revelation, and

minor children will be able to prophesy, and the common people will

speak with the power of the Holy Spirit. All this will be a

manifestation of the spirituality of the Promised Messiah.

(Daruratul- Imam, pp. 4-5,RuhaniKhazain, vol. 13, pp. 474-475)

\n the long history of human affairs, no one has ever wielded hispen so forcefully, so powerfully and so relentlessly in defence of his

faith as the spiritual son of the Holy Prophet Muhammadsa that isHadrat MirzaGhulam Ahmad, the Promised Messiahas. He unlockedfathomless treasures of knowledge, the treasures that had lain hidden

for centuries. The Promised Messiahas went about distributing the

wealth of knowledge freely, generously and abundantly.Millions of words flowed from his pen, his writings occupy

thousands of pages bound in ninety-one books. Hundreds of posters,

leaflets, tracts and handbills issued by him went to nail the lie or to

challenge the enemies of Islam.

The Promised Messiahas, the illustrious spiritual son of

Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon him, is the one who

employed his pen with a thrust of a sword or rapier. Prayer is aninstrument common to all the prophets, but the distinction of

wielding the pen belonged to the great spiritual son of the Holy

Prophetsa. The Promised Messiahas attributes all this power and

eloquence to his mentor and master, and he drank deep from his

fountain of knowledge. His medium of expression was Urdu, Arabic

and Persian, although because of his meagre education, he could not

claim perfection in either. Urdu was the proud language of Delhi andLucknow and the Promised Messiahashailed from a place like Qadian,

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of Urdu civilization and culture. Yet the Promised Messiahasproduced

a style of his own and enriched the Urdu literature so abundantly that

it amazed the proud scholars of Delhi.The Promised Messiahass pen produced magic, it cast a spell,

exercised a fascination and hypnotized the readers in a way that no

writer could ever claim. His cold logic, his power of reasoning, his

marshalling of arguments, his method of induction and deduction, his

dynamic style and forceful expression left his friends and foes

dumbfounded and speechless. His love for God, his immersion in the

Holy Quran and devotion to the Holy Prophetsa, these magneticpoints, were unparalleled and matchless. His love for Islam prompted

him to unleash an unceasing flow of powerful writings that set all

leaders of diverse faiths on the defensive. God had blessed him with a

special gift of knowledge. The knowledge, and the power to

communicate the knowledge, were his divine gifts. The miracle of the

language, whether of Urdu or Arabic, with which he was blessed,

remained unchallenged.The Promised Messiahas was endowed with the special gift of

understanding of the Holy Quran. He asserted, and he established this

assertion with unmatched logic, that the Holy Quran is an infinite

source of knowledge, infinite in meaning and infinite in its nature and

properties. The Promised Messiahasbrought a new glory, a new lustre

to the Holy Quran, discovering numerous graces and excellences that

had lain hidden for centuries.

The Promised Messiahas demonstrated with arguments that the

Holy Quran is replete with prophecies about our time, some fulfilled

and some still to be fulfilled. The Holy Quran never makes an

assertion unless it provides a convincing proof for that assertion. Any

doubt or difficulty arising in one's mind about the Holy Quran can

easily be settled by the Quran itself. The Promised Messiahas

methodically brought out distinctive features and characteristics

which make the Holy Quran a superior Holy Book compared to the

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the multi-sidedness of the Holy Quran by explaining how the text can

be interpreted in a number of ways. It has many layers of meaning. He

claimed that the Holy Quran imparts knowledge about the naturalphenomena, essential and necessary for the spiritual advancement of

mankind. He gave us the principles of the interpretation of the Holy

Quran whereby one can guard against errors. The Promised Messiahas

discovered that the Holy Quran contains a systematic account of the

stages of spiritual advancement and he enumerated the stages which a

human being is capable of attaining. He proved that the Holy Book

has a perfect sequence. The verses of each chapter are related in arational link.

The Promised Messiahasestablished thatsurah al-Fatihah(the first

chapter of the Holy Quran) is the synopsis of the Holy Quran, and is

in a way a prologue to the Holy Quran, the rest being the text and the

explanation. Lastly, he discovered how the meanings of various parts

and verses of the Holy Quran and their interpretation are interlinked

and have relevance to present-day needs.When the Promised Messiahasannounced his mission of reforming

society, he was attacked for his alleged lack of knowledge and learning.

He was described as aMunshi(clerk), a half-educated and semi-literate

scholar. It was stated that he had no knowledge of Arabic or the

necessary qualifications to pronounce judgment on matters of higher

learning. A wall of prejudice was raised against him. When this

criticism spread far and wide, God granted him a special knowledge of

Arabic. God endowed him with the knowledge of forty thousand

roots of the Arabic language in a single night. He was granted this

miraculous competence and was divinely commanded to write books

in Arabic. His first attempt in Arabic prose was a chapter he appended

to his book,Aina-e-Kamalat-e-Islam. This chapter contained an openchallenge to anyone who could find faults in his God-given command

of Arabic. The number of books that he wrote in Arabic continued to

pile up till it crossed the figure of twenty. The Promised Messiahas

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had the courage to accept his challenge. He then offered a reward

beginning with Rs. 1,000, which went on rising to Rs. 10,000, but,

despite the rewards he offered, none could produce something as goodin beauty, eloquence and power as those of the Promised Messiahass

books. Some of his Arabic books remain a challenge uptill now. Even

the Arabs were invited to join the challenge but they also failed. Some

of theMaulavisthen alleged that the works of the Promised Messiahas

were written by an Arab secretly employed by him for the job. To

rebut this allegation, he was commanded by God to deliver the

Sermon on the Idul-Adhaon April 11, 1900, in the Arabic language.In obedience to the divine command, the Promised Messiahas

delivered a lengthy sermon in Arabic. The sermon, later published

under the title of Khutbah Ilhamiyyah, revealed things couched in

chaste Arabic of the highest order, which impressed Arabs and

non-Arabs alike.

The writing of books was not the only occupation of the Promised

Messiahas. He issued leaflets, replied to letters, delivered speeches andgranted interviews to hundreds of thousands of seekers of truth.

According to one estimate, in seven years from the beginning of the

acceptance of baiat, he received 90,000 letters5which he individually

attended to and responded to. The writing of thirty to forty letters a

day is not an easy job for a man who is required to make speeches, hold

debates and is engaged in writing books. Often he would give

medicines to patients and he would never show any annoyance if he

was disturbed. The Promised Messiahashad no secretaries or assistants

and on top of these intellectual occupations, he would play host to all

those who visited him, as Islam inculcates most cordial hospitality. At

that time in Qadian, there were no boarding houses or hotels where a

visitor could find boarding and lodging, nor were there any provision

5For detail see The Life of Ahmadby A.R. Dardra, edition of 2008, page 340, for

detail on 90,000 letters.


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The Promised Messiahas beautifully delineated in

Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah,volume 5, page 117,Ruhani Khazainvolume

21, page 147, the magnitude of his vast work in his words: Thetreasures that laid buried for more than a thousand years;

are now being distributed by me to the one who is ready to accept

them.

The Promised Messiahas, over a period of 25 years, unlocked these

spiritual treasures single-handedly. Here, it is worthwhile to quote a

reference from the Siratul-Mahdi by Hadrat Mirza Bashir Ahmadra,

volume 2, page 417, edition of 1927, published by Nazarat IshaatQadian.

Hadrat Maulavi Sher Ali states that the Promised Messiahas once

observed that the members of our Jamaat should read our books at

least three times, and the one who does not study our books, I have

doubt about his faith.

This observation is a pointed reminder to undertake such a study.This book,An Introduction to Hidden Treasures of Islam, comes handy

to begin this noble mission for Ahmadi Muslims to dive into thismatchless ocean.

It has been edited and compiled on the basis of the first set of 23

volumes of the Promised Messiahass writings painstakingly collected

and compiled by Hadrat Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Shamsra and startedpublishing from 1957. An outstanding stalwart of Hadrat KhalifatulMasih II, Second Successor of the Promised Messiah, may Allah bepleased with him, Hadrat Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Shamsra wielded hispen as an erudite scholar. The amount of research and scholarship that

he displayed in preserving the sanctity of the original text of the

writings of his master is simply remarkable.

In a note to this gigantic work, Hadrat Maulana Jalal-ud-DinShamsrawrites: Printing errors, whether of the print or of calligraphy,

whether out of a lapse or minor slip, is not surprising. Therefore, we

adopted a process that books of the Promised Messiahas in whatever


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form or shape printed under his direct supervision were left

untouched. It is, therefore, not thought necessary to correct or to

undertake even the correction of a printing or a calligraphic error,whether result of a lapse or slip lest through this innocent process we

may open a door of tampering with the original text, this simply was

not acceptable.

This note conveys the utmost care exercised by Hadrat MaulanaJalal-ud-Din Shamsra in preserving the purity of the text. This is asimple acknowledgment of the debt that we owe to this great scholar

for passing on to us the Hidden Treasures of Islam bequeathed to usby the great son of the Holy Prophetsa, HadratMirzaGhulam Ahmadof Qadian, the Promised Messiah and Mahdias.

I was prompted to undertake this work with the hope and

expectation that my humble effort in assembling a sampling of this

great treasure for coming generations of non-Urdu knowing readers

may be a source of prayers for me and a small solace for my hereafter.

Syed Hasanat Ahmad

Toronto, Canada

February 20, 2010


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INTRODUCTION TO THE WRITTEN AND

SPOKEN WORDS OF

THE PROMISED MESSIAHas

The fathomless treasures of Islam that flowed almost a century ago

from the prolific pen of the Promised Messiahasis an abiding source of

knowledge, which will serve for centuries to come as a lighthouse of

guidance to those who seek the eternal truth and fundamental

principles of progress in this and the world hereafter.

The pattern of the books reveals the powerful and dynamicpersonality of the Promised Messiahas, who used his books as bullets

and spears in defence of Islam.

It will not be strange if a reader finds in his book an essay, a formal

discourse, or a dissertation, a qasidah(eulogy) of high literary merit in

Arabic in praise of his master and mentor, Muhammad, may peace andblessings of Allah be upon him, or an insertion of his latest prophecy

revealed to him either during the writing, or a little earlier, or anIshtihar (leaflet) announcing a handsome prize to an adversary, or achallenger, who could match his literary merit, or compare with him

in the knowledge of Arabic.

The digressions made during the course of a book are all cogently

accounted for. Reasons are given and a case is convincingly made out.

The treasures that flowed from the pen and lips of the Promised

Messiahas have all been well preserved and documented. Thesevaluable treasures written and spoken word are grouped into three

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The written words have been published and collected in the form

of books. Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyah, Rabwah, has painstakingly collected

all the books and published them in a collection of twenty-threevolumes, and in order to enable the reader to refer back to the original

of Writings of the Promised Messiahas, the reference to the original

page numbers has been retained and quoted.

All posters, handbills and tracts that were published from time to

time to meet a challenge or to counter a lie or rebut an allegation, have

also been collected in three volumes under the title Majmuah

Ishtiharat(Collection of Flyers or Posters).

Ishtiharat

Volume I

Contains 115 posters, leaflets and handbills, covering the period of1878 to 1893.

Volume II

Contains 65 posters, leaflets and handbills, covering the period of

1894 to 1897.

Volume III

Contains 105 posters, leaflets and handbills, covering the period of

1898 to 1908.

All these volumes spread over 1, 556 pages, comprising 285 posters,

leaflets and handbills.

Maktubat-e-AhmadiyyahLetters written by the Promised Messiahas from 1883 to 1908 to

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of the Khilafat and about the Companions of the Holy Prophet saare

collected in these volumes.

There are seven volumes of letters. The fifth volume comprises fiveparts. Details of these volumes are given as:

Volume 1

One hundred and sixteen pages, published in 1908, in Urdu. This

comprises a collection of letters that the Promised Messiahas had

written to Mir Abbas Ali Shah Ludhianvi from October 1882 toJune 1885.

Volume 2

Ninety pages, published in Lahore in 1912, in Urdu. This comprises a

collection of letters written by the Promised Messiahas from 1878 to

1903 to various Hindus and the leaders of the Aryah Samaj, including

Indarman Muradabadi, Pandit Dyanand, Pandit Lekh Ram, BawaShiv Narain and Ram Charan, in which the Promised Messiahasexplained the truth of Islam and fixed a period of one year for anyone

of them to come and stay with him in order to witness a Divine sign

and he also drew a comparison of the teachings of the Holy Quran

with the Vedas.

Volume 3

One hundred and twenty-two pages, published in Lahore in 1914, in

Urdu, is a collection of letters written by the Promised Messiahasfrom

1884 to 1903 to Christian missionaries, including Alexander Dowie.

He asked the Christian missionaries to produce a comparable

observation about Jesus as the one made about the Holy Prophetsaby

the King of Ethiopia in his time. He offered them a reward of Rs.

1,000 for it. The Promised Messiahas effectively answered allobjections raised by Christians about the Holy Prophetsa and

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Volume 4

Forty pages, published in Qadian, in Urdu, comprises a collection ofthe letters written by the Promised Messiahas to MaulaviMuhammadHussain Batalvi, in which he marshalled arguments about his truthand adduced and enumerated signs which had taken place in his

favour to establish his truth.

Volume 5: Part I

Fifty-six pages, published in 1918, in Urdu, is a collection of 96 letterswritten by the Promised Messiahasfrom 1892 to 1905 to Seth Abdur

Rehman of Madras.

Volume 5: Part II

One hundred and twenty-eight pages, published in Urdu, is a

collection of 88 letters written by the Promised Messiahasfrom March

8, 1885 to August 26, 1892 to Hadrat Maulavi Hakim Nur-ud-Din.These letters are in his own hand and relate to the efficacy of prayers

and specially those made at the eleventh hour. Mention has also been

made of some of his revelations specially about the Promised Reformer

and also contain suggestions about the printing of the magazines.

Volume 5: Part III

One hundred and seventy-six pages, published in 1929, in Amritsar, in

Urdu, is a collection of 278 letters written from 1884 to 1902 to Ch.

Rustam Ali, in which he praised the financial assistance rendered byhim and other matters.

Volume 5: Part IV

One hundred and forty-four pages, published in 1935, in Amritsar, inUrdu, is a collection of 62 letters written from 1890 to 1906 to NawabMuhammad Ali Khan in which a number of different subjects havebeen discussed, including the importance of baiat, signs of the


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Promised Messiah, the method of Istikharah, unreasonable waveringof the people on the prophecy of Abdullah Atham and the true

significance of Khatm-e-Nubuwwat.

Volume 5: Part V

Thirty-two pages, published on June 10, 1944, in Hyderabad Deccan,in Urdu, is a collection of 270 letters addressed to MunshiAhmad JanLudhianvi, and other friends in Kapurthala, Hadrat NawabMuhammad AliKhan of Jhajjar, MunshiHabibur Rehman, Munshi

Dafar Ahmad, Khan Sahib Abdul Majid and Maulavi AbdullahSanauri, and some other letters written in his own hand.

Volume 6

It is a collection of 23 letters written by the Promised Messiahas to

Hadrat Maulavi Hakim Nur-ud-Din and a number of different non

Ahmdi scholars. This collection was edited by Sheikh Yaqub AliKhan Irfani.

Volume 7

This collection was compiled in 1954 by Malik Salah-ud-Din, M.A.This has 51 letters, 36 of them were addressed to Nawab MuhammadAli Khan of Maler Kotla between 1892 to April 1908, and some

others addressed to a number of different personalities including BhaiAbdur Rahman Sahib Qadiani and Muhammad Ibrahim Khan(Sindh).

Note: Nazarat Ishaat has combined all the above letters (and somemore letters which could not be included in the seven volumes) into

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Malfuzat (The Spoken Word)

This is a set of ten volumes also published by Al-Shirkatul Islamiyyahunder the title of Divine Treasures - Series IIand known as Malfuzat.These are based on observations made by the Promised Messiahas in

various sessionsnow generally known as Majlis-e-Irfan.The particulars of the volumes published under the title of

Malfuzatare given below:

Volume IPublished in Rabwah, August 1960, in Urdu, 464 pages, covering the

period 1891 to 1899.

Volume II

Published in Rabwah, 1960, in Urdu, covering the period from 1900

to 1901.

Volume III

Published in Rabwah, 1961, in Urdu, covering the period from

November 1901 to October 14, 1902.

Volume IV

Published in July 1962, in Urdu, 464 pages, covering the period fromOctober 1902 to January 16, 1903.

Volume V

Published in Rabwah, October 1963, in Urdu, 464 pages, covering the

period from January 17 to May 30, 1903.

Volume VIPublished in Rabwah, 1963, in Urdu, 464 pages, covering the period

from June 1, 1903 to April 1904.


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Volume VII

Published in Rabwah, November 1964, in Urdu, 464 pages, coveringthe period from May 2, 1904 to August, 1905.

Volume VIII

Published in Rabwah, June 1969, in Urdu, covering the period from

September 1, 1905 to May 30, 1906.

Volume IX

Published in Rabwah, January 1907, in Urdu, covering the period

from June 1906 to October 1907.

Volume X

Published in Rabwah, in Urdu, 464 pages, covering the period from

October 1907 up to the time of his demise in May 1908.

[Note: The new set ofMalfuzatis now compressed into five volumes.]

In addition to the spoken words, which are mainly based on the

observations made by the Promised Messiahaswhenever he spent time

with his Companions after prayers or similar other gatherings, some

collections have also been published based on the speeches delivered

by him on various occasions.

Tadhkirah

All the revelations of the Promised Messiahashave been collected in a

separate volume published under the title of Tadhkirah by HadratMirzaBashir Ahmadra, Qamarul-Anbia. Tadhkirah was updated andpublished by Hadrat Maulana Jalal-ud-Din Shamsrain 1965 and then

its new edition was prepared and published by Syed Abdul-HayeeShah in 2004 with some additions. All editions were published under

the guidance and permission of the Khalifah of the time. So far sixeditions have been published of Tadhkirah. This has been translated


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into English by Hadrat Muhammad ZafrullaKhan, published in 1976by the London Mosque. This was revised and published as the second

edition in 2009 under the guidance of Hadrat Khalifatul MasihVaba.___


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A thumb-nail sketch of each of the

ninety-one books of

the Promised Messiaha s

COLLECTED IN 23 VOLUMES

FIRST PAGE GIVES THE HISTORICAL DATA OFEACH BOOK

SUBSEQUENT PAGES GIVE A SKETCH ANDREVIEW

All these books of the Promised Messiahasare availableon-line under the headingRuhaniKhazainat

http://www.alislam.org


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BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part I)

Arguments in Support of the Holy Quran and the Prophethood ofthe Holy Prophetsa (Part I)

Volume Number 1

Book Number 1

Progressive Number 1

Title of the Book Baraaaahiiiin-e-Ahhhhmadiyyah (Part I)

English Version Arguments in Support of the HolyQuran and the Prophethood of the

Holy Prophetsa (Part I)

Language Urdu

Number of Pages 86

Year Written 1879

Year Printed 1880

Name of the Press Safir-e-Hind Press, Amritsar


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BackgroundThe Promised Messiahas took up the writing of

Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah at a time when Christian missionaries had

moved in a big way in India under the umbrella of the British

Government. The Bible societies were being set up all over India,

specially in the Punjab . The force and aggressiveness of the

missionaries can be gauged from the fact that in a short period of forty

years preceding the writing of this book, 2.9 million Indians were

converted to Christianity. Hundreds of tracts and books were

produced by the Bible societies, not only attacking Islam, but also the

noble personage of the Holy Prophetsa. This was the beginning of an

onslaught on Islam at a time when the Muslims of India were in a state

of complete demoralization and dejection. It was not strange, as the

Muslims had recently lost their empire after what is called the "Sepoy

Mutiny of 1857."

The Christians were not the only ones in the field against Islam.

The Aryah Samaj and the BrahmuSamaj, two powerful movements oforthodox Hindu society, were making inroads among Muslims by

maligning the fair face of the Holy Prophetsa and degrading the

teachings of Islam.

A leading Muslim poet, Maulana Hali, in his famous poeticalwork, Musaddas-e-Hali, described the decline of Islam in a pathetic

way, lamenting how Islam in that age had fallen to a new low.

It was against this background that Hadrat Mirza GhulamAhmadasof Qadian single-handedly embarked upon the monumentaltask of defending Islam. Directed by a Divine revelation, he decided to

write a book with convincing logic and containing irrefutable

arguments and data in proof of the truth of Islam. The bookcompletely disarmed his opponents and stopped them from venturing

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Preceding the publication of this book, the practice was to write a

book in filthy, abusive and disgraceful language. People like Padre

Imad-ud-Din and Kanhiyya Lal have been writing books in highlyprovocative and inflammatory language, which no decent man could

read without revulsion. By writing the Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah in a

polite, gentle and decent style, Hadrat Ahmadas has shown howeffectively one can express views without resorting to vile language.

Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah had been written to answer the charges andallegations levelled by Christians and Aryas against the noble

personage of the Holy Prophetsa. Hadrat Ahmadasdid not adopt thestyle and tenor of the opponents of Islam. He gave deep thought and

after undertaking long research on each and every aspect of every

religion, after considering the merits of various points presented by

other religions and these were compared with the Holy Quran. The

Promised Messiahas took great pains and made sure no point of

importance is left out from the religions that are under discussion in

the book.The compilation of this great book, the collection of necessary

funds, the making of arrangements with a press at a distance of 36

miles from Qadian, the employing of Katib (Caligraphists), thecorrection of copies written by Katib, reading of proofs and theconsequent correspondence and journeys to and fro to the printing

press demanded from Hadrat Ahmadas a tremendous amount ofconstant attention and energy and must have caused him a great

mental and physical strain, especially the absence of helpers which

compelled him to look after every minute detail himself. The book

could not be entrusted to a publisher because there existed no

publisher in the modern sense of the word. He had also to devise,

direct, control and supervise its printing and distribution. In the

beginning, only 700 copies were produced, but later, the number was

increased to 1,000. In a western country, this number would today

seem small, but in the nineteenth century and in a country where

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challenging job to find Muslim readers on the one hand, and

representatives of other religions who could read the book, on the

other hand. Addresses were collected and circulars and leaflets wereproduced in English also. There was no one at Qadian who could do

the translation. For this purpose, a special messenger had to be sent to

Amritsar or Lahore to contact somebody who knew English.

Hadrat Ahmadas completed his manuscript in May 1879, whichwas around two thousand five hundred pages, but when he took up

the printing, he decided to undertake the publication of a portion only

of the original manuscript.As soon as the fourth part was printed in 1884, HadratAhmadas

sent the preliminary notice of the book with a letter under registered

cover to well-known Christians and also to BrahmuSamajists, AryahSamajists, Naturalists, Ruling Princes, Pirs and divines. This letter wasto the effect that the author had been commissioned by God to

regenerate mankind through meekness and humility, which

characterised the way of Jesus Christ. For this purpose, he had writtenand published a book, reference to which would be found in the

circular: Islam is the only perfect religion, and the Holy Quran is the

actual Word of God. The truth, it was urged, could be tested by

anyone who was prepared to come to Qadian and to stay with the

author for one year as a seeker after truth. The expenses of staying of

the seeker of truth would be borne by HadratAhmadas.

The Book

The first part is confined to describing the numerous beauties and

excellences of Islam followed by announcements that if similar

excellences were found in any other faith, even half of them or

one-fourth, or even one-fifth of the excellences that had been

mentioned about Islam, he would give a prize of ten thousand rupees(which was equal to the value of his entire property).

He then went a step further and said that if a challenger could not

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invited to refute the arguments which had been produced in the book

with the help and support of the Holy Quran.

Specimen of writing

If some man of understanding is unable to grasp the full meaning of

the above mentioned text, what is meant by fine arguments, so in

order to elucidate it, it is pointed out that arguments and reasoning

advanced in support of the Holy Quran, which go to prove the truth

of the Holy Quran and Muhammad, may peace and blessings of Allah

be upon him, are of two types.

First those arguments which lend to support the truth of this pure

book and truth of Holy Prophet are those which are based on

testimonies and emanate from the Holy Book and secondly those

which are based on noble character of the Holy Prophetsa and are

obtained from his total personality.

Second group of arguments are those obtained externally which go

to support the truth of Holy Quran and of the Holy Prophet sathat is

those arguments which are based on external events.

(Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, Part I, pp. 32-38, Ruhani Khazain, vol. 1,

pp. 31-33)6

Review

The Editor of the Manshur-e-Muhammadi, while writing the review

led his review with the verse of the Holy Quran: Truth has arrivedand falsehood has vanished; falsehood was bound to disappear

(17:82), It observed:

Islam is being attacked from all directions. Atheism is flourishing and

irreligion is on the increase. Those of the BrahmuSamaj are making

every effort to establish the superiority of their creed over Islam

through their philosophic writings. Our Christian brothers aredevoting the whole of their effort towards wiping out Islam. They are

6This text occupies many pages as the wordings of this text are in very large font.


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The Book

The second part of the book deals with the erroneous beliefs of theAryah Samaj, the need for revelation and the superiority of the HolyQuran over other scriptures. The Promised Messiahaslaid stress on the

necessity of basing all arguments in favour of a particular faith upon

the authorised scriptures of that faith. He invited the Aryah Samajistsand the Christians to defend their faith by basing their arguments

upon their scriptures Vedas and the Bible respectively.

For the first time, Hadrat Ahmadas introduced an element ofdecency, politeness and respect for the feelings of others and also their

scriptures in his writing, which was universally absent in the writings

of the Christians and the Aryah Samajists. He proposed to the leadersof all religions to show due respect to the religious feelings of the

followers of any particular faith because he maintained that one could

not win an argument by heaping abuses and vile attacks on the faiths

of others. One could only win an argument by forcefully depicting the

graces and beauties of one's own religion by quoting from one's own

holy scripture.

Specimen of Writing

Reason is a lamp which God has furnished to man, the light of which

draws man towards truth and saves him from a variety of doubts andsuspicions and sets aside different types of baseless ideas and improper

conjectures. Reason is very useful, very necessary and is a great bounty.

Yet despite all this, it suffers from the shortcoming that it alone

cannot lead to full certainty in the matter of understanding the reality

of things. The stage of perfect certainty is when man should believe

that the reality of things exists as it in fact does exist. Reason alone

cannot lead to this high degree of certainty. At the onset it proves theneed of the existence of something, but does not prove that in fact it

exists. This degree of certainty is, when a persons knowledge should

proceed from the stage of should be to the stage of is, and is acquired


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BARAHIN-E-AHMADIYYAH (Part III)

Arguments in Support of the Holy Quran and the Prophethood ofthe Holy Prophetsa (Part III)

Volume Number 1

Book Number 3

Progressive Number 3

Title of the Book Baraaaahiiiin-e-Ahhhhmadiyyah (Part III)

English Version: Arguments in Support of the HolyQuran and the Prophethood of the

Holy Prophetsa (Part III)

Language Urdu

Number of Pages 138-273**

Year Written 1879

Year Printed 1882

Name of the Press Safir-e-Hind Press, Amritsar


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**Note: It may be noted here that in the original editions of the

books as published by the Promised Messiahas, Hudur usedprogressive number in pages. So when the second volume ended on

page 137, progressive number continued in the third volume, that

is how the third volume starts with page number 138 and ends

with page number 278. The fourth volume begins from page 279

and ends at page 572. However, Hadrat Jalal-ud-Din Shamsra, inorder to preserve the integrity of the books and the page numbers

used in the edition as published by the Promised Messiahas,retained those page numbers, and these page numbers are shown in

the margin of each page as published by Islam International

Publications Limited. Hadrat Jalal-ud-Din Shamsra had to usedifferent numerical order of pages which became necessary on

account of a different printing format, but nonetheless, he very

faithfully preserved Hudurs page numbers which are shown in the

margin of each page of the book and thereby preserved andmaintained the purity of each book.

The Book

He devoted the third part of the Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah to

expounding the beauties of the Holy Quran in such a fashion that the

superiority of the teachings of the Holy Quran was established with

pure logic. The Promised Messiahasmaintained with a conviction that

comes only from Divine guidance that the Holy Quran is a unique

book offering a perfect guidance for mankind, and a guidance that

could have been revealed by God alone. The Promised Messiahas

answered a number of objections that were levelled against the Holy

Quran and claimed that he himself was the recipient of the Divine

revelation and ready to demonstrate its truth. He explained variousforms in which God communicates His Will to man in a very

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Specimen of Writing

Ever since the appearance in the world of the sun of righteousness inthe blessed person of the Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah

be on him) up to this day, thousands of persons who possessed the

capacity and the ability, by following the Divine word and obeying the

Holy Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be on him), have arrived at

the high ranks that we have mentioned and continue to do so. God

Almighty continuously bestowed upon them such favours, bounties,

support and help that it is proved to those possessing clear sight thatsuch people are Divine favourites, who are under the grand shadow of

Divine bounty and are recipients of great grace. Observers can see

clearly that these people are honoured with extraordinary favours and

are distinguished by wonderful signs and perfumed with the fragrance

of love and enjoy the pride of being accepted of God. The light of the

All-Powerful so fills their companionship, their attention, their

resolve, their moral qualities, their way of living, their joy, their anger,their desire, their dislike, their movement and their rest, their speech

and their silence, and their outer and inner selves, as a clear and

transparent glass receptacle is filled with excellent perfume.

(Barahin-e-Ahmadiyyah, p. 443-444 sub-footnote 3,RuhaniKhazain,

vol. 1, pp. 529-532 sub-footnote 3)


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Hadrat Ahmadas discussed at length, in Part IV of theBarahin-e-Ahmadiyyah,the origin of human language, the nature and

importance of miracles and the significance of the Prophet's

foretelling the future.

HadratAhmadasthen took up the concept of God as presented bythe Aryah Samaj, Christianity and Buddhism and compared themwith the conception as presented by Islam.

The principles of Brahmu Samaj are subjected to exhaustivecriticism and the principles of Jewish scriptures are compared with the

Holy Quran in all their aspects. Through the force of pure logic and

reasoning, he established the superiority of Islam over all other

religions. This portion of the book also carries a prophecy about the

death of Pandit Dyanand. The Promised Messiahas also discussed atlength the concept of salvation and how it can be attained.

The book speaks for itself, and points out its own merits and

excellences, and proclaims its own uniqueness and matchlessness

compared with other books. It proclaims loudly its challenge: Will any

one come forward and contest? The points of wisdom, the truth

which it teachesnot two

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